Undergraduate Events

P2P Drop in Office Hours Facilitated by Butler Launch Pad Director Cindy Klein Marmer, P2P (Peer to Peer) Connect sessions are drop in office hours. These virtual facilitated feedback forums are designed to help you make progress on your venture through virtual support. You will have the opportunity to get feedback on your business concept or help to overcome a current challenge you are facing while helping your peers do the same. You'll leave the session with a renewed focus on the actionable next steps you should take to continue making progress on your business. Find out more

Student-led fireside chat: Babson alum founder who built an AdTech/Marketing AI company will share lessons learned along the way. Join us for an engaging discussion with alum Miha Mikek MBA'06. Miha built Celtra in 2006 with his wife and fellow Babson MBA alum, Maja Mikek MBA'07. Together, Celtra has raised over $25m in funding to built a suite of Marketing AI tools and has helped large clients like IBM, Hershey's and MetLife with their creative transformation for their digital ad content and creative. Miha will share his tips for building and growing a tech company and lessons learned along the way. More about Celtra: Celtra is a Creative Automation software-as-a-service company. Celtra suite of creative automation tools helps large enterprises and emerging DTC brands automate creative production with a simple to use SaaS platform for marketing teams. On Celtra's cloud-based software, creative and marketing teams collaborate to design and deliver digital campaigns across the ever-growing number of channels, ad formats, variations, and markets. Powering 400+ creative teams and 2/3 of Fortune 500 companies, brands and publishers alike use Celtra to transform their creative production and collaboration. Celtra won numerous industry and business awards for it's innovative SaaS platform, including IAB Mixx, iMedia ASPY, MassTLC, and others. Miha was recognized with several business leadership awards in Europe and honored as a 2012 Rising Star by Babson College. He regularly appears as a speaker at leading industry events, including BI Ignition, Cannes Lions, Dmexco, IAB Summit, CES, and has been covered by the Financial Times, Business Insider, Forbes, AdAge, AdvertisingWeek, and other major publications. Find out more

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P2P Drop in Office Hours Facilitated by Butler Launch Pad Director Cindy Klein Marmer, P2P (Peer to Peer) Connect sessions are drop in office hours. These virtual facilitated feedback forums are designed to help you make progress on your venture through virtual support. You will have the opportunity to get feedback on your business concept or help to overcome a current challenge you are facing while helping your peers do the same. You'll leave the session with a renewed focus on the actionable next steps you should take to continue making progress on your business. Find out more

The 13th annual Babson Trading Competition, sponsored by Fidelity Investments, welcomes students to compete against one another using the Rotman Interactive Trader software, which simulates an order-driven market. This competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students at Babson College, Olin College, and Wellesley College. Students will compete individually, with cash prizes awarded to the top five finishers. Registration is required. Prizing:Cash prizes awarded to the top five finishers as follows:1st place - $4002nd place - $200 3rd place - $1504th place - $1005th place - $50Schedule:4:00 - 5:30 pm Practice Round & Instructions (It is not necessary to attend the practice round if you are already familiar with the software)5:30 - 6:00 pm Pizza and refreshments will be served outside the Cutler Center Finance Lab 6:00 - 6:30 pm Hear from special guests from Fidelity Investments6:30 - 8:00 pm Trading Competition8:00 - 8:15 pm Awards PresentationSoftware:The competition will use the Rotman Interactive Trader software. Prior to the competition, participants are encouraged to download and install the RIT Market Simulator Client and the Excel RTD (Real-Time Data) Links. Once the software is installed, participants can try the online demo case. Additional details can be found on this webpage from Professor Ryan Davies. The competition is based on the Liability Trading cases (LT3, LT4). In these cases, participants will be playing the role of a principal trader. Institutional orders will be randomly routed to a principal trading desk and then traders must decide whether or not to accept the tender. If the order is accepted, the trader then must develop an optimal strategy for unwinding the position over time, accounting for market conditions such liquidity, price volatility, and price impact. Find out more